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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
8
Jack Battaglia announces a new meat market at the corner of Washington and Fourteenth street offering a full line of choice meats with phone number 1025.
Notice sets business hours from 8 a m to 5 p m with specific settings from 9 to 12 and 1 to 4. Customers urged to phone for appointments at telephone number 6. Griffin Studio.
Advertisements urge men to buy home goods at The Racket Store and Smith Bros with blankets dishes knives and rugs while Monroe Furniture Co advertises furniture. Fresh meat groceries and fruit are sold nearby with Saturday cutoffs for Sunday meat orders. Various shops tout candy cigars perfumes seed potatoes and Xmas gifts with open evening hours and delivery options noted by Wexler’s, Copeland’s, and Collens’ Pharmacy.
A humorous verse about an old Berlin man who bets on German victory. His fate rests on luck and whether he remains unscathed when the event ends, promising a skin saved if fortune holds.
War governors gathered in Annapolis Maryland to view the new superdreadnought Mississippi anchored in Chesapeake Bay. They toured as guests of Secretary Daniels on the presidential yacht Mayflower and heard speeches praising President Wilson's Europe trip.
In a three night operation Shreveport authorities with the police department the department of justice and the sheriff’s force seized more than 1200 gallons of whisky and arrested 50 or more men many from Texas. Fifteen arrests last night yielded over 310 quarts of whisky at Union Station as detectives guarded the influx from Monroe.
Secretary Lane defends President Wilson travel to Europe calling his trip a new day spirit of neighborly aid. He says the president goes as champion of American ideals not for parade but to ensure the war yields a lasting peace and spreads our democratic principles.
The sale offers 1 000 sets of cups savers plates soup oats meals and hundreds more dishes at The Racket Store. Dollars go far as shoppers rush in from 19 to 21.
Queen Helena, hostess to the President and Mrs Wilson during their forthcoming Italy visit, is beloved by Italians for her modest, unassuming manner. She greets visitors quietly and leaves a favorable impression, though she is described as sensible rather than exceptionally beautiful or intellectual.
A note recalls sending a box of Nunnallys to a recipient at Wexler's Cigar Store in 1871, highlighting the charm of a simple gift and the recipient's smile.
An anonymous English author cites a German soldier diary showing a Lieut Muller repeatedly drunk during a week of battles and only rewarded with the Iron Cross on Sunday. The passage is used to critique how decorations are awarded.
Mrs Minnie J Grinstead becomes the first woman member of the Kansas legislature as a licensed Baptist preacher and active WCTU worker. Her breakthrough marks a milestone in state politics and religious civic service.
A suburban scene shows a boy declaring he works for a Thrift Stamp. A woman questions his idle pose as he explains Mr. Smith on the veranda agreed to pay him for watching for his father, a small domestic moment from a village afternoon.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the Citizens National Bank will be held in the bank office in Monroe Louisiana on Tuesday January 14 for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve for the ensuing year and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
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